1909, ISBN: 9781235869808

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Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: . . . money arising from the sale of slaves during the year 1836--making the aggregate 24, 000, 000. 00. This estimate is cited as that of the Virginia Times and an explanation of how the figures are arrived at is set out by the author in the first of the three notes above quoted. By reference to Volume LI of Niks1 Register, page 83, in which the extract from the Virginia Times appears, it will be seen that the latter paper does not attempt any discussion of the subject, any marshalling of statistics or any conclusions of its own drawn therefrom. It simply recites in an item of ten lines--that-- We have heard intelligent men estimate the number of slaves exported from Virginia within the last twelve months at 120, 000. The item further recites that of this number not more than onethird have been sold, the others having been carried by their owners, who have removed, which would leave in the state the sum of 24, 000, 000. 00 arising from the sale of slaves. We have heard intelligent men estimate is a somewhat different statement from that of the authors text in which the Virginia Times is made to fix the exportation for the year 1836 at 120, 000, 40, 000 of whom were sold to dealers. How little value, however, can be attached to the estimate will be appreciated when we recall that an 152 THE SALE OF SLAVES EXAGGERATED exportation of 120, 000 slaves per annum would in four years have depopulated the state of every single slave. The census showed that there were 469, 758 slaves in Virginia in 1830 and 490, 865 in 1860. By no possible process of computation can the Virginians of the period from 1830 to 1840 be charged with the enormous profitableness of slave-breeding, arising from annual sales of 40, 000 slave. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<